Without getting too philosophical, I don't see what's so ominous about the present not being the future or vice versa. All we have is the present, really. It's

Without getting too philosophical, I don't see what's so ominous about the present not being the future or vice versa. All we have is the present, really. It's easy to verify for yourself who's working on Scala right now: https://github.com/scala/scala/graphs/contributors https://github.com/scala/scala/graphs/contributors (work on Dotty started around 2012, when I moved from EPFL to Typesafe). Myself, retronym & lrytz are on the Scala team at Lightbend. I'm proud of what we've accomplished with 2.10, 2.11 (8 minor releases!) and 2.12 (RC1 coming soon -- see my comment above), and excited about what the future holds for Scala! We work together closely with Martin's Dotty team, exchanging ideas about compiler performance and convergence of language features in Scala 2 and Dotty (the incubator for the future of Scala).